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This is a seriously impressive project, but I'm having an issue with discoverability. Is there a single list anywhere of what the projects actually are? Not just their names and dependencies (which, sure, I could just Google) but an actual catalogue with a description of each one? I've checked the various pages and haven't found one yet.

I always keep a tab open at http://cliki.net, and use it whenever I need some new library. It comes with a list of (currently) recommended libraries, which is good for starters, and you can browse projects by category or search by keyword/name.

This bothers me a lot as well.. Is there at least a support (or plan) for "short descriptions" or some tags in Quicklisp? I think if that would become a part of package information, then it could be extracted as well.

The releases page at http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/releases.html is auto-generated from a database of some sort, presumably. Could you generate a separate one, the DIY Documentation Page, that wraps every project "foo" in some html like [a href="https://www.google.com/#q="foo"+lisp]foo[/a] so that people could google stuff easily? It's not a solution, but it would help...

PS Did I mention "seriously impressive"? Just in case you think I'm teaching grandma to suck eggs, or indeed teaching the world-famous quadruple-Olympic-gold-medal-winning internationally renowned egg-sucking expert who has just been awarded the Noble Prize for Egg-Sucking... to suck eggs. If you see what I mean. That would be more like it.